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UNITED STATES EX REL. LAWS v. YEAGER

No. 18162.

448 F.2d 74 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Horace LAWS, Appellant, v. Howard D. YEAGER, Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1971.

As Amended on Rehearing August 30, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Heuisler, Camden, N. J., for appellant.

Edward N. Fitzpatrick, Asst. Prosecutor, Bergen County, Hackensack, N. J. (Robert Dilts, Bergen County Prosecutor, Hackensack, N. J., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BIGGS, VAN DUSEN and ROSENN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial by the United States District Court of Laws' petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Laws was indicted, along with others, for conspiring to commit armed robbery in violation of N.J.S.A. 2A:98-1 and 2A:98-2 and to commit murder in violation of N.J.S.A. 2A:113-1 and 2A:113-2. He was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death...

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